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Glacial Stairway
Peter Riley
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Description for Glacial Stairway
Paperback. Collects poems and sequences by the Cambridge-based author, some of which are derived from experiencing an unfamiliar place, such as highland and wilderness (the Pyrannees, the Apennines, Derbyshire, Haute Provence, the American west). Num Pages: 98 pages. BIC Classification: DCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 137 x 207 x 8. Weight in Grams: 136.
"The Glacial Staircase" collects almost a decade's new poems and sequences by the Cambridge-based author Peter Riley. Most of the longer pieces derive from experiencing an unfamiliar place, in this book, highland and wilderness (the Pyrannees, the Apennines, Derbyshire, Haute Provence, the American west). Other pieces are set at home, or in places the author has never been to at all. Little time is spent in describing, beyond reassuring the reader of a firm position on the earth. The localities are taken as theatres for a self-questioning of place and person. The pressures of history, culture, and the language reach ... Read more
"The Glacial Staircase" collects almost a decade's new poems and sequences by the Cambridge-based author Peter Riley. Most of the longer pieces derive from experiencing an unfamiliar place, in this book, highland and wilderness (the Pyrannees, the Apennines, Derbyshire, Haute Provence, the American west). Other pieces are set at home, or in places the author has never been to at all. Little time is spent in describing, beyond reassuring the reader of a firm position on the earth. The localities are taken as theatres for a self-questioning of place and person. The pressures of history, culture, and the language reach ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
Carcanet Press Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
98
Condition
New
Number of Pages
98
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781847770790
SKU
V9781847770790
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Ref
99-11
About Peter Riley
Peter Riley was born in 1940 in Stockport, Cheshire. He studied at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and the universities of Keele and Sussex. He taught at the University of Odense (Denmark) but since 1975 has lived as a freelance writer, teacher and book-seller, first in the Peak District and then in Cambridge. Carcanet publish Passing Measures (2000) and Alstonefield (2003).
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